Supervisory IT Specialist (Chief Technology Officer)

Full Job Description

This position is located in the Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of the Chief Information Officer.

You must meet the following requirements within 30 days of the closing date of this announcement.

Specialized Experience: For the GS-15, you must have one year (52 full weeks) of specialized experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the GS-14 grade level in the Federal service.

Specialized Experience for this position includes: - Developing and implementing software systems including architecture and data security capabilities at scale, modernization of legacy systems, migration to cloud-native architectures, and integration of system-wide analytics; and - Proposing innovative solutions to enhance applications, infrastructure, and drive customer requirements; and - Making recommendations involving the adoption of new technologies to enhance operational efficiency; and - Providing authoritative advice to senior-level management in areas of technology assessments, policies, and initiatives; and - Providing technical and administrative supervision to staff.

The experience may have been gained in either the public, private sector or volunteer service. One year of experience refers to full-time work; part-time work is considered on a prorated basis.

To ensure full credit for your work experience, please indicate dates of employment by month/day/year, and indicate number of hours worked per week on your resume.

Time-in-Grade: In addition to the above requirements, you must meet the following time-in-grade requirement, if applicable: For the GS-15 you must have been at the GS-14 level for 52 weeks.

Time After Competitive Appointment: Candidates who are current Federal employees serving on a non-temporary competitive appointment must have served at least three months in that appointment.

In addition to specialized experience, individuals must have IT-related experience demonstrating each of the four competencies listed below.

Attention to Detail - Is thorough when performing work and conscientious about attending to detail.

Customer Service - Works with clients and customers (that is, any individuals who use or receive the services or products that your work unit produces, including the general public, individuals who work in the agency, other agencies, or organizations outside the Government) to assess their needs, provide information or assistance, resolve their problems, or satisfy their expectations; knows about available products and services; is committed to providing quality products and services.

Oral Communication - Expresses information (for example, ideas or facts) to individuals or groups effectively, taking into account the audience and nature of the information (for example, technical, sensitive, controversial); makes clear and convincing oral presentations; listens to others, attends to nonverbal cues, and responds appropriately.

Problem Solving - Identifies problems; determines accuracy and relevance of information; uses sound judgment to generate and evaluate alternatives, and to make recommendations. Major Duties:

HUD's Mission The mission of the U.S.

Department of Housing and Urban Development is to foster strong communities by supporting access to quality, affordable housing, expanding the housing supply, and unlocking homeownership opportunities for the American people.

The Department is committed to furthering the promise of self-sufficiency in every American while promoting economic development to revitalize rural, tribal, and urban communities across the country.

This position is located in the Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO).

This mission of OCIO is to enable delivery of HUD programs, services, and management processes by providing high-quality information technology (IT) solutions and services.

The strategic goals of OCIO are to: rapidly modernize HUD's information technology to support key business initiatives; transform the information technology infrastructure to adapt to and adopt emerging technologies; develop a cadre of highly capable IT professionals with mission critical competencies needed to meet the Department's goals; and provide secure, rapid, and reliable data and information to our customers.

As a Supervisory IT Specialist (Chief Technology Officer), you will: Establish and enhance the CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, microservices and API-first architectures, container orchestration, infrastructure-as-code, and hybrid/multi-cloud platforms.

Engage with cloud architects, DevOps engineers, and automation specialists to validate approaches and ensure enterprise scalability, reliability, and security.

Identify and report on innovative solutions, modernization processes and technologies and promotes the integration and transformation of significant capabilities to the Department of Housing and Urban Development's information management and technology portfolio.

Propose and lead enterprise-wide research, prototyping, and full lifecycle implementation of innovative services to stimulate and encourage the generation of and dissemination of advances for the Department and its partners.

Produce a supporting strategic roadmap that identifies needs, obstacles, and opportunities within and across the Departments' mission, program and support offices and develops and outlines a vision for new services and implementation opportunities, shapes strategic objectives during the planning, procurement, and allocations processes to stimulate the use of innovative solutions.